Re: securing this workstation.

ny choice is ephemeral. Since root, by default, does not have a password, if you don't create another user, you have no way to access the machine. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "There is no security on this earth. d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359There is only opportun

Re: securing this workstation.

m somewhere, it has opened a pathway for that other system to send a reply to you. Specially crafted replies and broken filters in the programs on your machine which receive those replies is the most common way get infected. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 73

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

check this. As you can guess, Samuel was right. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here."

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

nose this problem. Of course, even after getting it to work, all I learned is that the machine is fine, just not the VGA. At least, I learned a lot about serial consoles. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.ca

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

hine. The USB end of the cable is attached to ttyUSB0 on the laptop. I have tested ttyS0 by connection elsewhere using straight serial and it works as it should. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "A

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

ng to think adding a video card would be the right answer. (The current connector is on the motherboard.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Country music is just folk music for righties and

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

- Load Kernel Module drm. sddm-helper-start-wayland[99236]: "No backend specified, automatically choosing drm\n" sddm-helper-start-wayland[99236]: "kwin_wayland_drm: drmSetClientCap for Atomic Mode Setting failed. Using legacy mode on GPU \"/dev/dri/card0\"\n" >Do you se

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

ctl start sddm) and no errors were reported. I don't see anything useful in the log except the service start. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine, CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Everything that can be invented ha

Re: Access the serial console on Fedora

th a different system), just to see if the problem is a configuration error in Fedora. I now realize that by the time Fedora starts, that process is done. Maybe I should be asking if there is a way to get serial access before Fedora. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvi

Access the serial console on Fedora

t220 # Again, lines are split and condensed here only for readability. After all this, I get no output on the putty connection and no response when attempting any entry. I've also tried the other listed baud rates. Is there any obvious step I've missed? Is there a better way to do this

Re: command line smtp mailer?

ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >Anyone have a favorite command line outbound (smtp) >email program that is easy to use? You could look into nmh, the "new mail handler", originally from RAND. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

completion before I copied the output. That's a different issue, not terribly important, but annoying. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy becaus

Re: dnf downgrade dependencies

>On 3/13/25 10:20 PM, Dave Close wrote: >> I've decided I'm unhappy with one of the changes made by the most >> recent version of LibreOffice, 24.8, and I want to try going back to >> the previous version, 24.2, which is part of the FC40 repository. >> B

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

cerned by the result of using -c; that doesn't seem related to the problems with the card since it claims not to have found any bad blocks. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "The mind is a wond

dnf downgrade dependencies

others! And it thinks the removal of these packages requires downgrading others, including mod-perl! I suppose I can simply download the older LibreOffice packages and then use rpm to replace them. But there could be some authentic library dependencies. Is there a better solution? -- Dave Close, Co

Re: e2fsck malfunction?

nt that no bad blocks were found. Jeffrey Walton replied: >Throw the old SDcard away, and use a new one. I intend to. But this isn't a problem with the card. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu

e2fsck malfunction?

ion after. So it appears that asking e2fsck to check for and mark bad blocks causes it to destroy the superblock(s). Is there another explanation? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Some ideas ar

Re: startx

5:49 1.16s ?xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- dave tty2 20Feb25 7days 1:08m ?xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- ... Just ran "startx" in two virtual terminals. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Tact is insulting a man without d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7

Re: Replacing nano with vim - logout needed?

Try "dnf remove nano-default-editor". -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "'Always' and 'never' are two words you should always remember

Re: security: wted?

n check: 0:23:46 ago on Thu 13 Feb 2025 10:05:51 AM MST >. >Error: No matching Packages to list >bash.9[~]: >- - - - - - >duck-duck-go and google gave me nothing useful. > >What is "wted", and is there a security problem? You didn't try but I did: # dnf pro

'comm' and 'sort' incompatible?

My searches don't reveal any previous complaints. Trying the same thing on my Raspberry Pi (bookworm) does not exhibit the problem. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Th

Re: F40 to F41 upgrade

libreoffice, firefox, and cups, were deleted because they were dependent on something. Of course, the log doesn't say what dependency they had. The log shows: Install 84 Packages Upgrade7921 Packages Remove 414 Packages Downgrade10 Packages -- Dave Close, Co

F40 to F41 upgrade

ting those that had been installed and are still available as part of F41.) All the missing ones have now been added back manually and things seem to be working properly. But I'm holding my breath. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.c

Re: Config to turn off Firefox advertising features

om Firefox for a while, seeking a better browser, but always found some issues with others. And I avoid Chrome. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "If I don't know I don't know, I think I know;

Re: Fedora 41 systemd or its dependencies now includes qemu

do not include qemu. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.&

Re: F41 DNF bogus error

itional relative to the >commands. Until "install" is encountered on the command line, there >*Is no* "--skip-unavailable" option. Likewise, it might not accept >"-y" *after* "install". Thank you. I have read about the change to parameter sequence

F41 DNF bogus error

Unknown argument "--skip-unavailable" for command "dnf5". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments. Obviously, DNF should not tell a user to use an option that isn't actually available... -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 7

Re: CentOS - what to use now that CentOS 7 is EOL

does and does not do, exactly how it does those things, and test results. If I buy a piece of software as complex as a database, I get something called "getting started" and that's it. How can you prove they didn't do what they promised when they never really promised anything? --

Re: dnf-system-upgrade to Fedora 41 is Ok

Is it still true that stock F41 does not include the ability to run X11? I'm stuck until Wayland has a way to invoke Firefox from a cron job. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Tact is insulting a man without d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359his knowing it." dhcl...@alu

Re: dnf disable-repo???

ng --disablerepo="WineHQ packages" >No repository match: WineHQ >No repository match: packages 'dnf repolist' will tell you the correct names. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "You can only be young once d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359but you can be i

Re: Screen saver no longer working

Andreas Fournier wrote: >After a recent update I noticed that the screen no longer goes dark >after a time of inactivity. I checked the settings and they are as >before.  > >Any way to get it back working? I confirm that I've seen the same behavior. F40 x86_64 KDE. --

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

you were trying to evacuate from a wildfire? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Life would be tragic d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359if it weren't funny." dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu-- Stephen Hawking -- ___ u

Re: Secondary SSH

at seem relevant. (Of >course, $PPID and similar variables are different.) Can anyone suggest >what could be the issue? Or what other tests might be helpful? The solution was provided through the openssh mailing list. I've added an alias to my system and will use it when connecting from

Re: Secondary SSH

Jeffrey Walton wrote: >At this point, I would visit each machine and: > > mkdir -p ~/.ssh > chown -R dclose:dclose ~/.ssh > chmod -R o-rwx ~/.ssh That would be guaranteed to cause failure. For example, my private keys cannot have 0777 permissions! -- Dave Close, Com

Secondary SSH

e1 -> sudo on machine1 -> user@machine2 :: WORKS I've examined the output of the set command for all of these situations and can't find any variables that are different that seem relevant. (Of course, $PPID and similar variables are different.) Can anyone suggest what could be the issue?

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

mpletely fix the contents of /boot until after I had deleted /boot/efi entirely. (Well, actually, just moved it elsewhere. To be deleted eventually.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Politics

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

sinto /boot/ and blscfg entries >in /boot/loader/entries/. That worked! Thanks! Now I'll try to go back through my logs and try to see when sdubby got installed and why. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "There is no security on this earth. d...@compata.com,

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

Barry Scott wrote: >> On 12 Aug 2024, at 03:40, Dave Close wrote: >> >> # df -h /boot >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda6 974M 549M 358M 61% /boot >> >> It is held at least three kernels in the past. >That does

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:30:14 -0700 Dave Close wrote: > >> # dnf -y reinstall kernel-core-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 > >> So, what happened to kernel 6.10.3-200? RPM -V says the package is >> complete but the files are not there! > >

Re: DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

John Pilkington wrote: >On 11/08/2024 18:30, Dave Close wrote: >> I can't make sense of this output, can you? >> >> # rpm -q kernel-core >> kernel-core-6.9.9-100.fc39.x86_64 >> kernel-core-6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 >> kernel-core-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 &

DNF upgrade not upgrading my kernel

-200? RPM -V says the package is complete but the files are not there! -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say." -- Voltaire -- __

Re: Poll: The best way to run an Android app in F40

no good alternative and sometimes I don't realize the deficiency until after purchase. I tried Waydroid. As you say, it looks nice and many apps work. But some selection points were simply not responsive for me. Maybe a bug, maybe intentional, but the effect made Waydroid useless for me. --

Re: different behaviors for anaconda depending on iso files

Mike Wright wrote: >The manpage is confusing in this regard. It offers this: > > -a|--activate y|n|ay > >So, is that -a y and -a ay ? Dunno... Using parens to help clarify, that should be read as, ( -a | --activate ) ( y | n | ay ) -- Dave Close, Com

Re: /boot too small

n the Fedora documentation web site. I'm sure many of us will want to adopt this approach. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "'Always' and 'never' are two d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359words you should always remember dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu

Email Balkanization (was Re: Fora vs. mailing lists)

to be at least semi-intelligent. Since people read email using a web interface that hides much of the information useful for identifying spam, it seems to me that those web systems should make the use of proper encryption techniques to identify senders and recipients easy when that is appropriate. --

Re: gpg decrypt from a script

Alex wrote: >Also, I'm not new to Linux administration, but somewhat new to sshpass. >Does it only work with ssh passwords or public keys as well? You don't need sshpass if you have the private key matching the public key already stored on the server. Just use ssh. --

Re: VMware woes

oded, for reasons unfathomable. I wonder what did that. It wasn't sent that way: Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech

Re: VMware woes

intended.} -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." -- Nelson Mandela -- ___

Re: Log file *detailed* content description

ssage on my own system. My question was, when someone connects to my system, which key in my authorized_keys file were they using? That seems to have been a more difficult question. But see my next message. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Log file *detailed* content description

ssh2: RSA SHA256:QSyKp5SJ8gJFcYtbtb9SQ1axtqSg7fEoQBiZf3kPXgU what is the meaning of the RSA value listed? Is it a "fingerprint"? How can I compare it to the various keys on my system? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

ermissions, etc, I determined I was unlikely to find the problem. I took the coward's way out and downgraded the machine to FC38. After that, the problem is gone! I'll leave it at FC38 for a while while watching for any online comments that might provide a clue to a real solution. --

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

sing "startw". I agree that this is not likely a plasma problem. It's the reference to /dev/dri/card0 that concerns me. There must be some reason why this device is needed but can't be found. For what it may be worth, I'll attach the complete output (if that is accepted on

Re: Starting Wayland FC39

0 >device but they are ancient and don't seem relevant. > >This machine is intended to run an application that only works on >Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestions >would be very helpful. If it matters, this machine was never installed with the KDE spin.

Starting Wayland FC39

that only works on Wayland (Waydroid) so at this point I'm stimied. Any suggestions would be very helpful. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to in

Re: iPad file backup?

good WAP and a separate router that can really do what a router should be able to do. The ERX I mentioned does not include any wifi (though I think Ubiquiti does make more expensive units which do both). -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Re: iPad file backup?

y not invest a surprising small amount in a real router like the Ubiquiti Edgerouter X? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Computers are useless. They can on

Re: Upgrading to Fedora 38: Misleading 'verify' instructions

Barry Scott wrote: >What exactly did you do that got this error message? >How can I reproduce this? To me, the first important question is, is the file actually defective (17 improperly formatted lines) or is the message bogus? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 43

Re: Thunderbird 115 FC 38

Adam's message seemed just fine when I saw it using exmh. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's wher

multi-user vs graphical mode (was startx equivalent for Wayland)

ot;save", but when was the last time anyone here used a manila folder or a floppy disk? (Don't tell me about "hover" to discover the meaning of some silly picture. That's just extra work, and tedious besides when searching through dozens of pictures for the one needed.) -

Re: startx equivalent for Wayland

ou want to run. e.g. gnome-shell Thanks. So there is no equivalent of /etc/sysconfig/desktop? Personally, I prefer KDE. I can eliminate most of the "icons" and similar junk and just manage using things I can read (though it does take some effort to disable that stuff). -- Dave Close

startx equivalent for Wayland

there is no package that includes such a command and I can't find any other weston command that looks likely. Surely I can't be the only one wanting to start from a command line? (The target is a system running 64-bit F38 fully updated.) -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA

Broken browser? Or broken website...

-thou attitude. Unfortunately, fedoraproject.org is not the only place I've encountered this abomination. What gives the administrators of these places their special rights to control the rest of us? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Re: Startup recovery

. Yep, I've come to the same conclusion. This laptop initially had a small SSD. I've added another larger one but the partitioning isn't optimum anyway. I suspect that /root ran out of space overnight and led to all this trouble. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine C

Re: Startup recovery

lvs" post that info. The Attr column will show if it is >activated or not. Not activated on boot. Thanks for the help and advice. But I think John is right, it's time to start over on this laptop. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Whenever you have a secret, d...

Re: Startup recovery

another machine. Currently, the only seemingly serious error I see is that zram0 swap isn't starting. The swap LV is properly configured so this doesn't seem that it should be a /home dependency. I've currently reached a point where the network starts so my next task will be to verif

Startup recovery

ster in the morning so further investigation will continue after I return. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Quantum computing is a marvelous way to show the non- intuitive nature o

Re: NFS mount

t thought was that the error message, "Protocol not supported", could be improved. But it is exactly correct. What was missing for me was any clue as to how to address the error. Perhaps something in the man page would have helped. Over and out. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA &quo

Re: NFS mount

2049 > mount.nfs: prog 15, trying vers=2, prot=6 > mount.nfs: trying 192.168.44.20 prog 15 vers 2 prot TCP port 729 > mount.nfs: mount(2): Protocol not supported > mount.nfs: Protocol not supported > >I can't find anything relevant in any system log. The final message

Re: NFS mount

ve even tried with my firewall disabled but no luck. > >Two questions: first, why did you suspect the firewall and second, have >you re-enabled it? I didn't suspect it, just being paranoid. And yes, of course. The client is internal, it doesn't face the Internet. -- Dave Close, Compa

NFS mount

, "Protocol not supported", doesn't clearly indicate which protocol -- I presume mount(2) -- nor give any clue to a remedy. But if I force v3 for mount, I get a version mismatch. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com

Re: XTerm font resource

uot;-fs" gets one with lots of half-tones. It appears that XTerm must be getting its font in some non-standard way. Any XTerm experts here? -- Dave Close ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: XTerm font resource

enlon answered: > I don't use xterm but I use rxvt and for that, I have to issue this command > to update my .Xdefaults settings (such as fonts, colours, and so on). > > $ xrdb -merge .Xdefaults > > It could be the same for xterm? Thanks but I don't think that

XTerm font resource

th "Small" doesn't. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here? What options can I use on a command line to get the same font as selecting "Small" with the xterm menu? -- Dave Close ___ users mailing list -- users@li

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

by the situation. I only wish there were someone who wasn't baffled and could tell me what is wrong. Thanks for all the help. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Politics is the business of getting d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359power and privilege without dhcl...@alumni.caltech

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

Ed Greshko wrote: > If you ssh into the failing system and run "top" does anything > seem odd? A process stuck at the top or hogging CPU? 99.7% idle. Occasionally, plasmashell or vncserver will show a few percent. Usually top itself is the big user. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irv

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

Ed Greshko wrote: > Can you run "dnf distro-sync" just to make sure all packages are > at the most current level? Dependencies resolved. Nothing to do. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "'Always' and 'never' are two d...@compata.com, +1 714 434

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

ared with a working cursor. But instead of going to a black screen, it stayed on the splash screen. The Xorg.0.log did not change until I switched to VT2, then it showed both AIGLX suppended and resuming when I switched back to the hung VT1. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

ing this experiment, /etc/sysconfig/desktop contained, DESKTOP="KDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Words are too fragile to carry ideas

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

nse. I'll try it again and post a clarification. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "I think there is a world market d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359for about five computers." dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu -- Thomas J. Watson, 1945 ___

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

gt;> hurt to try that as Samuel has suggested. >> Using kdm, I get exactly the same result. > >Sorry, would you clarify? > > You do get a login screen and then when you enter your PW you end > up with a black screen with a cursor you can move around? Yes. Exactly. -- Dave Cl

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

n the main screen. > > This starts the session differently. How are you starting vnc and > KDE in this case. That might give a hint to why the other method > isn't working. Well, I'm certainly seeking hints. The VNC session got me to a blank screen image. I opened an xterm on i

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

ted. Using kdm, I get exactly the same result. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Email is the 'file system' for people that aren't geeks. I

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

I wrote: >But it certainly does look like the systemd-logind pause is stuck >and could be the cause of my problem. BTW, /etc/systemd/logind.conf contains only comments and none of the other logind configuration files are present. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 43

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

y problem. Have I mentioned that I installed TigerVNC on the system, then connected from a different one? In that situation, KDE starts fine. The problem is only on the main screen. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@al

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

Ed Greshko wrote: > Could you upload /home/dave/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log for > others to look at? The one on my test system is 402 lines long so > yours may be equally long. Sure. Here's the latest version. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Genius may have

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

elease notes, it is. Though there apparently is a way to override and force it back to X. I haven't tried, mostly because I really don't like Gnome so I avoid it. > But, one should try creating another user and then try starting > KDE on that new pristine account. I've done tha

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

"Patrick O'Callaghan" wrote: > You might want to post on the Fedora KDE list for this kind > of problem. I may try that. But the XIO errors and the failure to open the display made me think this might be a better place. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

onf.d to a different directory and tried again. No change. The Xorg log file is basically the same as before, no EE lines. The xorg.conf file looks about the way I would expect. Frankly, it looks pretty vanilla. The xorg.conf.d directory contains only a 00-keyboard.conf file. -- Dave Close

Re: KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

installed, before the reinstall. The result was the same except that killing the hung system was more painful. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "You ain't goin' nowhere, son." d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359-- Grand Ole Opry manager

KDE doesn't start after upgrade to Fedora 27

er I killed it. Error: Can't open display: :0 KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/libexec/drkonqi directly Could not connect to

Re: F24 CUPS error_log file

goes to "syslog" when it really means the journal. If I change it to "/var/log/cups/error_log", things return to normal. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "Everythi

Re: F24 CUPS error_log file

ere is no log file, anywhere, and certainly not in the standard location, /var/log/cups. It's not hard to run "find / -name error_log"; I have and the file does not exist. From the absence of any other responses, I presume no one knows where the error log went. I guess it's time to

F24 CUPS error_log file

different printer model. But I don't find any answers. If, after I find the error log, I still can't fix things, I'll send another message with details about the printer, but that isn't my question just now. I just want to find the error log. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA

PXE Fedora 23 with Anaconda 20?

via Alt-F2 shows that it is Anaconda v20 that's running. What could be responsible for that? What part of my PXE configuration might be wrong? -- Dave Close -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Fedora archive repository corrupted?

>right on your machine. It failed the same way on a dozen mirrors but then found a good one. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu "The world will little note nor long re

Fedora archive repository corrupted?

rting repomd.xml for fedora: Damaged repomd.xml file http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/21/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd. xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for fedora: Damaged repomd.xml file I've cleaned my own local metadata. -- Dave Close "Technolog

Re: confirm 54c5ec0c1760e22625ac92a4094bf4b4b2b533a9

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Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

olution Ed TB ThunderbirdKmailyes Claws Ed TB ThunderbirdKmailyes Thunderbird Somebody working on Firefox ought to clarify or fix the help page. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Why would you want to control d...@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359qual

Re: Default mailto application on Fedora 17

t. Gentlemen, please re-read my first paragraph above. I know how to change those values. And I know how they're set. What I want to know is why Firefox is, apparently, ignoring its own stated policy, and how to make it do what it says it already does, but doesn't. Again, c

Default mailto application on Fedora 17

r. But I need to pass some arguments to my program and Firefox doesn't offer that ability itself. To get that ability, I need to be able to change the system default so that Firefox recognizes the change. But where is Firefox finding the "default"? -- Dave Close, Compata,

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